Found via Twitter – Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, the entire Great Lebowski script redone a la Shakespeare.

Speaking of Dudes-with-a-capital-D, CNNGo claims that His Bobness, The Great Zimmy, Bob Dylan will be gracing a stage in Hong Kong on April 8th.  I don’t know if he’s ever played Hong Kong before, I suspect the answer would be no.  They also say that he will be playing Beijing and Shanghai.  That seems a little bit suspect to me.  I’m sure Chinese authorities would present him a list in advance of songs that he would not be permitted to perform and aside from that list being quite long, he doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who would go along with that. (“Wait, you’re telling me that the only song I can do is ‘Gotta Serve Somebody’ and I gotta change the lyrics to ‘Gotta Serve The Party’?”)

At any rate, thinking to myself, well, Barry Goldberg was my piano teacher back when Dylan produced one of Goldberg’s solo albums (actually it’s the only non-Dylan album that Dylan ever produced).  Barry kept saying he was going to introduce us but it never happened.  And I have a buddy from back in my college days who is a good friend of Dylan’s and writes most of the copy for Theme Time Radio Hour.  Wonder if I can get an interview – what do you ask the man who has been asked everything 1,000 times? – or a photo pass?

UPDATE – I am informed by a reliable source that Dylan performed in HK in 1994.  Welcome back Bob!

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